reading List

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my To-Be-Read Shelf

READING LIST

august 2010

  • The Wake of Forgiveness by Bruce Machart (debut novel)
  • Jane Addams: Spirit in Action by Louise W. Knight (biography)
  • Stiltsville by Susanna Daniel (debut novel)
  • Lark & Termite by Jayne Anne Phillips (novel)

july 2010

june 2010

  • Mrs. Somebody Somebody by Tracy Winn (debut story collection)
  • Rabbit, Run by John Updike (novel)
  • Where the God of Love Hangs Out by Amy Bloom (stories)

may 2010

  • The Maytrees by Annie Dillard (novel/reread)
  • Imperfect Birds by Anne Lamott (novel)
  • Verging on the Pertinent by Carol Emshwiller (stories)

april 2010

march 2010

  • Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard (nonfiction)
  • How Fiction Works by James Wood (craft)
  • The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty (stories)
  • Love in Mid Air by Kim Wright (first novel)

february 2010

  • Love and Summer by William Trevor (novel)
  • Reasons to Live by Amy Hempel (stories)
  • Edinburgh by Alexander Chee (first novel)
  • Consider the Lobster by David Foster Wallace (essays)

january 2010

december 2009

  • Mentors, Muses, & Monsters edited by Elizabeth Benedict (essays)
  • The Signal by Ron Carlson (novel)

november 2009

  • An Equal Stillness by Francesca Kay (first novel)
  • The Book of Laughter and Forgetting by Milan Kundera (novel)
  • Things You Should Know by A. M. Homes (stories)

october 2009

  • A Brief History of Time by Shaindel Beers (poetry)
  • Snoop by Sam Gosling (nonfiction)
  • A Gate at the Stairs by Lorrie Moore (novel)
  • The Sweet In-Between by Sheri Reynolds (novel)
  • poemcrazy by Susan Goldsmith Wooldrigde (craft)
  • wildlives by Monique Proulx (novel)

september 2009

  • Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace (novel)
  • Speak Low by Carl Phillips (poetry)

august 2009

july 2009

  • This is Water by David Foster Wallace (essay)
  • The Way to Write by John Fairfax and John Moat (craft)
  • The Best American Short Stories 2008 edited by Salman Rushdie (story anthology)

june 2009

may 2009

april 2009

march 2009

  • House of Light by Mary Oliver (poetry)
  • The Secret Currency of Love edited by Hilary Black (essays)
  • In Patagonia by Bruce Chatwin (nonfiction)
  • Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates (novel/reread)

february 2009

january 2009

december 2008

november 2008

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september 2008

august 2008

july 2008

june 2008

  • The Heart is a Loney Hunter by Carson McCullers (reread/novel)
  • The Problem with Paradise by Lesley Dahl (ya novel)
  • Belong to Me by Marisa de los Santos (novel)
  • Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert (memoir)
  • Divisadero by Michael Ondaatje (novel)
  • Flight by Sherman Alexie (novel)
  • Late Wife by Claudia Emerson (poetry)

may 2008

  • Enduring Love by Ian McEwan (novel)
  • A Dangerous Age by Ellen Gilchrist (brand new novel!)
  • The Spy who Came in from the Cold by John le Carre (novel)

april 2008

  • Animal Crackers by Hannah Tinti (stories)
  • The Memory Keeper’s Daughter by Kim Edwards (novel)
  • The Awakening by Kate Chopin (novel)
  • The Gateway by T. M. McNally (stories)

march 2008

february 2008

january 2008

  • Loving Frank by Nancy Horan (novel)
  • Five Skys by Ron Carlson (novel)
  • Ron Carlson Writes a Story by Ron Carlson (craft)
  • The Art of Subtext by Charles Baxter (craft)

Please post a comment if you have any questions about these books.

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7 Responses to reading List

  1. Suzanne Saunders says:

    WOW!

  2. Bobby says:

    His Dark Materials by Phillip Pullman…

  3. sonrie says:

    Voracious reader that I am, I have to say that I have not ready any one of these books! I now have a solid list to add to my “to read” list.

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  5. hopeseguin says:

    I really really really liked Ron Carlson’s The Signal. Although I obtained this book from the library, it is one that I ‘covet’ . . . and wish to have on my shelf – to read again . . . and maybe again.

    hope
    http://hopeseguin.wordpress.com/?s=ron+carlson

  6. cynthia says:

    Hey Hope! Nice to see you here. I’ve just read the first page of The Signal, and with your words I can’t wait to pick it back up again tonight. I see you liked Five Skies as well. So did I. I appreciate your leaving a comment!

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